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Robert Martin was taught to march and thought it was stupid [Annotator's Note: in US Navy basic training]. They went to...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer received his discharge orders on 10 December 1945 while on occupation duty in Kagoshima...

Jack Madden was in Europe when the war ended. He was delighted. He had not followed the course of the war too closely...

Fred Arthur Balfour went into service in 1944. He went to Electrician Mate's school in Bainbridge, New York. They...

Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

Joseph Brannan was stationed in Southern France after being based in Italy. In France, liberty was more available than...

Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

Jack Raskoph was transferred to Pier 92 in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York], where people were...

David Foerster got his wings at Pensacola [Annotator's Note: Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida]. He went to...

Winfield K. "Win" Zerphey was born in October 1924 in the small town of Floren outside of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. He...

After the war, Ernest Barber went back to school using the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

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